I have short films, projects that never got made, personal photos, ones of friends, clients, old family ones … i do some writing and store different documents. I want to have a Mari Kundo type hard drive.
Do you guys have any tips? Or some industry standard I’m not aware of?
Only purchase equipment for business needs. They come with extended warranty.
Our work flow depends on shooting on site or offsite. We have to 40TB redundant NAS devices in separate location. One is for prod one is for backup.
I also keep offline backups because NAS devices can get hit with crypto.
Make sure you have a firewall and close all ports no one needs.
Create a V-LAN separate from your home network unless you have a dedicated studio. In that case set up V-Lans and firewalls as well.
Try to not buy all the drives from the same vendor. If you get a bad batch they may all fail. They are covered by warranty but it takes time.
We shoot with A7IV and A7R5. They each have their own purpose and we are a Sony shop so we can swap lenses batteries etc.
For your home storage I would recommend putting a M.2 drive for caching purposes.
However I typically use Samsung T7 or other drives on the go or during post. But for export it goes to the NAS.
LPT if you have a second hand at a shoot just keep an AirPod in so you can talk to each other and make sure everything is in sync. With the new Sony SD cards they promise 900 Mbps write and read speeds.
Which is great because we empty out 2 2TB fast SSDs that support the latest usbc standard. And I can dump 24000 raw files in about 6 minutes.
Last tip, labels and colors. All my drives are labeled. With storage capacity date purchased etc. that way I don’t bring the wrong one 🤣.
Keep inventory of everything, get it insured and make sure you set up the warranty with your OEM for the drives.
Good luck :)